Oakland’s Police Chief Anthony Batts blames out-of-town “anarchists” for the disturbances that followed the involuntary manslaughter verdict in the police shooting of Oscar Grant.
Bolivia’s Defense Ministry has ordered an investigation of an incident in which a military jet fired a missile that passed within a meter of the tail of the presidential plane.
Mexican police foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in Latin America, arresting a cell operative in Tijuana, the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Seyassah reported.
Mexico’s once-hegemonic political machine, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), reaped gains in gubernatorial races, with voters disillusioned by escalating narco-violence.
Francisco Chávez Abarca, wanted on terrorism charges in Cuba, was arrested by Venezuelan authorities and confessed to having been contracted by Luis Posada Carriles to carry out attacks.
World leaders commemorated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre July 11, and genocide convictions have been handed down—but the accused massacre mastermind Ratko Mladic remains at large.
Obama’s “humiliation” at the hands of Netanyahu has Washington’s “pragmatists” paranoid about a Zionist Occupied Government—because they fail to grasp Israel’s assigned role in the imperial order.
The Israel Defense Forces announced that several Israeli soldiers will face disciplinary action for their role in the 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip.
A Syrian military court sentenced lawyer and activist Haitham Maleh to three years in prison for campaigning against the emergency rule under which Syria has been governed since 1963.
Haitian president René Préval rejected changes US senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) proposed for presidential and legislative elections that are now scheduled for Nov. 28.
Dozens of demonstrators were injured at Puerto Rico’s Capitol building when riot police used batons and tear gas to keep hundreds of students from entering a session of the Legislature.
A five-member panel of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) announced that it had decided by a four-to-one vote to release campesino activist Ignacio del Valle Medina and 11 others.
